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Communication Highwire: Leveraging the Power of Diverse Communication Styles

Click on the logo above to order. "Beyond Valuing to LEVERAGING Diversity..." A practical book including 4 models, 37 stories, and 26 reproducible activities grounded in theory for using differences at work, in communities, or at home. Authored by Dianne Hofner Saphiere, Barbara Kappler Mikk, and Basma Ibrahim DeVries.
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Shinrai: Building Trusting Relationships with Japanese
Colleagues

Shinrai is a high quality audio CD and
24-page booklet that helps busy executives build lasting and
fruitful business relationships in Japan, and with Japanese
colleagues. The approach is a combination of cultural
insights and relationship-building phrases. Learn Japanese
common sense, which may be vastly different from that which
you were raised. Develop comfort with several high-impact
phrases in Japanese, not "standard" phrases, but
phrases that truly show your sincerity and make a difference.
Whether you travel to Japan on business, work via phone and
email with Japanese, or live and work in Japan, this CD will
improve your productivity and effectiveness in your day to
day dealings. Please CLICK HERE to order or learn more.

Requires 10 minutes to conduct and about 30 to
debrief. Participants experience speaking a language nonfluently:
how it affects one's ability to stay focused and connected with
the listener, and one's feelings of competence and confidence.
Participants also experience listening to second language
speakers: their own tendencies to help or to become distracted.
Observers note the speaker's nonverbal communication. Extremely
powerful. Please CLICK HERE to order or learn more.

A powerful and extremely adaptable
simulation, Ecotonos breaks the usual stereotypes and barriers.
Participants improve their skills and strategies for making
decisions and solving problems in groups with sometimes
conflicting priorities. Ecotonos can be used multiple times with
the same people by selecting a new problem and different
variables, with each replay offering new and different
cross-cultural perspectives. Eight to fifty participants form
three groups and create their own "cultures".
Participants begin to solve a problem in their monocultural
groups, then mingle to continue problem solving in multicultural
groups. The simulation and debriefing require a minimum of three
hours. The debriefing includes the highly effective method of
process mapping. Ecotonos comes in a colorful box with an
instruction manual, metal cultural name pins, 30 sets of
laminated rule cards, and three prewritten case studies.
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here to view an article on Ecotonos' use by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police.Please CLICK HERE to order or learn more.